Amy Van Dyken-Rouen plans to attend the U.S. Olympic swimming trials this summer, 20 years after she won four gold medals at the Atlanta Games and two years after severing her spine in an ATV accident, according to the Arizona Republic.
The Olympic trials are June 26-July 3 in Omaha, with the top two finishers in each individual final clinching spots on the U.S. Olympic team for Rio in August.
Van Dyken-Rouen said she was told by doctors she’d probably never walk again after being paralyzed from the waist down in her June 6, 2014, accident but continues to make progress.